Top Ten Tuesday – books I read from recommendations

Ohhh man, it's been over a year since I took part in any sort of blogging meme. I'm really wanting to focus more on developing this wee blog though so I reckon it's about time to dip the toe back in. So, where better to get back involved than with Top Ten Tuesday? The classic.…

Craving the dark side in the spookiest month? How about some dark academia?

There's something about universities and schools that lend themselves so well to books with a darker tone. The settings themselves, usually Ivy League or similar, along with the smart-arse full of themselves characters that authors tend to conjure to populate the hallowed halls, mingle so well. From secret societies to posh kids gone wild, to…

The Read More Book Club: October 2020 Reveal Day

I just wanted to share a quick post this morning with my The Read More Book Club choices for October 2020. I'm planning on reading three books this month, one for each prompt and one that's a bit of a hybrid...kinda. Prompt One I got all sentimental about it this month and just needed a…

What I read in September 2020

September has been yet another absolute weirdo of a month. Coronavirus feels like it's getting well out of control again globally but it's also coinciding with a lot of people giving significantly less of a shit about it. It's terrifying how many people think a global pandemic is some sort of mind-control hoax but here…

The Read More Book Club: October 2020 #wordsfromhome and #horrorclassics

Happy October everyone! Once again I'm back to elaborate a little on what The Read More Book Club will be up to during the spookiest month of the year. I first wrote about TRMBC on my blog last month, but it's been running since July. There are now over 40 members, two active group chats…

The Read More Book Club: September 2020 wrap-up #feminist fiction

Morning all! Incredibly, that's September done and dusted for another year. It's been another shitehawk of a month 2020-wise with a lot of us back under some variation of lockdown and governments around the world losing any sort of grip on reality. So thank God that books exist to get lost in. Once again The…

Book Tour || The Story of Babushka – a beautifully illustrated tale of finding your place in the world

The Story of Babushka by Catherine Flores is a beautifully illustrated children's book about the five bodies of a matryoshka doll finding out about the world and trying to find the meaning of life. I'm delighted to have a space on the book tour for this gorgeous wee gem so read on for my review…

Under the radar haunted house novels you need to know about

I don't know about you but my mind is firmly on Halloween (y'know, apart from the millions of other things we have to think and worry about) and specifically my TBR list for the run up to the spookiest day. The haunted house is my favourite horror sub-genre so I spend a lot of time…

The Read More Book Club: September 2020 #feministfiction

I've never written about The Read More Book Club (TRMBC) on my blog yet, mostly because I've not been writing about anything on my blog but you know how it is: something, something, unprecedented times. We're actually now into the third month of TRMBC but better late than never, right? It's the fifth of the…

What I read in August 2020

I feel like August was a strange sort of month overall. I spent a lot of it in a state of profound anxiety so I wasn't as up for reading as much as usual. But that said, I still managed to cram in some amazing reads. For The Read More Book Club this month the…